Friday, December 04, 2009

I recently had the chance to attend the ACA2K Dissemination Seminar held this month at the University of Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Hosted by the Link Centre, the half-day event was funded through the ACA2K’s supporters, IDRC and Shuttleworth Foundation and was an opportunity to share their recent research findings within the realm of copyright law and its influence on access to educational materials in Africa.

Wednesday, December 02, 2009

In the beginning of October (yes, I know... almost two months later!), I had a chance to participate in an extraordinary event in Dakar called the Acacia Research and Learning Forum. After nearly a year + of planning, this meeting brought together just over 150 researchers, bloggers, and other brilliant African minds. The meeting was to take stock of the incredible African research in information and communication technologies that has been produced in at least the last decade and have a look forward to the future of ICT4D research in Africa.

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I'm a transplanted Vancouverite currently working with an initiative on Applied Poverty Reduction Assessments at the School of Built Environment & Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban South Africa. I am currently completing my PhD at the Institute for Social Development, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa. main focus of research is in the poverty and economic dimensions of information and communication technologies for development. Prior to this, I worked on ICT4D Africa (Acacia) projects at the International Development Research Centre.
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